The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
2 PM ET The Beginner's Meeting
Hosted by Mike Creech
A friendly introduction to the Sensemakers Club designed to help new members feel comfortable and connected.
3 PM ET The Analog Leap
Hosted by Kelly Hughes
A fast-moving creative exploration of analog visual making, where we'll engage with paper and pen to unlock your creativity and embrace an experimentalist attitude.
2 PM ET Making Sense Through Play
Hosted by Rebecca Hathaway
A playful group exploring how creative, playful approaches can open up new ways of making sense of ideas and situations.
2 PM ET Design Jam
Hosted by Holly Schroeder & Abby Covert
A hands-on design jam for members and leaders to collaboratively explore and shape the future of the Sensemakers Club through a working session focused on iteration and shared ownership.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Other Humans
Hosted by Erin Rodat-Savla & Karen Brothers
A brave group focused on understanding and improving teamwork dynamics, navigating conflicts, and fostering productive relationships without burnout.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Money
Hosted by Tarryn Lambert & Sarah Rice
An open, nuanced discussion aimed at demystifying money, fostering connections, and promoting financial empowerment through shared experiences and insights.
What’s going on?
Week of August 10, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week Making Sense of Content + Design (Aug 3) had members map their current and ideal content/UX workflows against a shared product process, surfacing where their job titles diverge but their actual work overlaps. Mindfulness & Modeling (Aug 4) opened with a guided meditation and then had members physically map "their week" on paper, using what they chose to leave off the map as a way into a discussion about boundaries. Knowledge Management & Governance Support (Aug 5) took on the role of friction in acquiring knowledge, asking what should stay slow and deliberate versus what can safely speed up. Diagram Critique (Aug 6) worked through a member's in-progress diagram for a homemade AI-assisted work tracker, stress-testing how the underlying model should handle time, editing, and history. Career Transitions (Aug 6) opened with new facilitators asking members to define what a "career transition" even means beyond simply changing jobs. And Trade-offs: A Magic Wand for Making Progress (Aug 7) ran a "would you rather" game through four professional dilemmas — scheduling, taxonomy scope, system rollouts, and flashy versus foundational work — to unpack how members actually reason through hard calls.
Themes from last week:
- “Being seen” is treated as separate from — and sometimes at odds with — doing the work well.
- Members are actively swapping company-defined success metrics for their own.
- Deciding what to leave out is itself the design work.
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
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